The UN places Israel on a blacklist of countries and armed groups it believes have committed serious violations against children in war zones. A decision by the secretary general of the Glass Palace Antonio Guterres - denounced by the ambassador of the Jewish state Gilad Erdan - which unleashed the wrath of the Israeli leadership, starting with Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu.
The black list includes for the first time both Israel, with the IDF, and Hamas and Islamic Jihad: the relevant UN report will be officially published at the end of June. The fact is, the media underlined, that a democratic country like Israel finds itself in the company, due to the war in Gaza, of Russia, Isis, al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, Afghanistan, Iraq, Myanmar, Somalia, Yemen and Syria. Previous UN reports had included chapters regarding the conflict with the Palestinians with accusations against Israel of serious violations of children's rights. But never before had the Jewish State been included in the final annex of the report, which concerns precisely "the parties that did not implement measures during the reference period to improve the protection of children".
This is the actual black list, the listing of which is the responsibility of the UN secretary general. «The United Nations - Netanyahu denounced - have today put themselves on the black list of history by joining the supporters of the Hamas murderers. The IDF - continued the prime minister - is the most moral army in the world and no delusional decision by the UN will be able to change this reality".
Centrist leader and War Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz also spoke of "a new historic low" in anti-Semitism at the United Nations: "As Israel wages the most just war in its history against monsters who have massacred, raped and kidnapped newborns, women and children in the name of a murderous ideology, the UN - he accused - shamelessly draws false equivalences between Israel and Isis".
Foreign Minister Israel Katz instead branded the decision as "a charlatan act on the part of Guterres: a step that will have consequences on Israel's relations with the United Nations".
(Unioneonline)
